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Is There A Sweet Spot For Digital Connectivity To Work After Hours?

The Horizons Tracker

This isn’t a problem just at holiday time, of course, as digital technology allows work to creep into our personal lives all year round. After a month had passed, they then completed a questionnaire that was designed to measure social capital development at work.

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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

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What’s more, if these barriers aren’t overcome, it’s likely that this group will suffer most from any technological disruption. Social capital. Weiss argues that effective wraparound support also needs to provide the kind of social capital that is often crucial to securing the jobs we want.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Build a Simple System to Achieve Success

Coaching Tip

By being selective as to who we let into our social networks, we retain the ability of instantly collaborating with many people across time zones and borders. The foundation of network technology is how the people we connect with think about the collaboration process. . Those networks that violate the law of reciprocity die.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of " Achieving Success Through Social Capital" (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Find out more about social capital by clicking here. Effective social networks that are built on the "law of reciprocity" flourish.

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Is The Period Of Global Economic Growth At An End?

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A paper from the UC Santa Barbara argues that this growth is due to a combination of the technologies of the Industrial Revolutions and the various economic and political freedoms we have enjoyed as democracy has spread. While there have been undoubted ebbs and flows, the last century has seen growth in GDP like never before.

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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of Achieving Success Through Social Capital (Jossey-Bass, 2000).